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hell yes. Now you'll really be able to enjoy that boat for what it was made for. Good wake makes all the difference It was already enough for wakeboarding, just not surfing. Now it should do that too. If not another 400lb in the left locker will solve that, but I thought I'd add that in stages as I don't really want to add another pump and switch and wire and that bs. efffffff yewwwwww. I haven't been on a boat (except to fish... twice I think) all summer. You live in Texas

Even if the mileage gets worse, I am not sure I care. Could take me from 200gal/year to 250 and that $200 spent on gas is a get to, not a have to.

They sell the LSA motor as an option. 555hp and 545ft lb. Haven't brought it up, it gets better "mileage" but that isn't fair.

Da bears suck

I'd expect anywhere from 40-100HP at the crank. I haven't pulled the plastic on the motor, almost looks like the airbox has a helmholtz tune as its rather big. Charging may make that have to go away, but I won't be happy if it resonates at cruise. Might be able to relocate it though although that will change its dynamics a bit. Can't find cam specs online, but have thought about measuring it to cross reference.

Yep, I eventually killed that motor. Parted out the car, but kept the charger. Figured I probably wouldn't buy another in my life as I'd buy Turbo's most likely if I were building a car, but at the same time thought a fun project might just eventually roll my way. And that of course is half the reason. The other is that it is inconsequential money to do the rest. I really just need a few pipes and a tune.

Yay, 2 stroke!

I did always want to cripple that boat with a 4 or 5 blade 24p and watch it JUMP on plane

Ah, makes sense now. What kind of boat? Danzi or Foutain or something similar? Ranger, lol. Knew you had one, but god damn I had no idea they went like that. Has that been sold yet? The only fishing boats the store dad used to work at carried were Trackers, lol so high end ones are foreign to me. Mine has the cheater setup. 250xs making 286hp, big ass Bob's hydraulic jack plate, and a custom tuned 27p prop. Top end is insane, in particular when she starts to chine walk pretty bad North of 70. Takes someone with some driving savvy to handle, in particular on Tonka. The Hot Foot helps HUGE.

Black Flag? You? Not to listen to, to piss people off with. And of course only to teach them a lesson and in retaliation. I used to be a Sound Engineer, but also the manager of the bar I worked at. When we closed I had to stay until people left. I found the easiest way to get people to leave was to play Black Flag so loud that they couldn't talk. Usually took less than 5 minutes to empty the bar. Fuck yelling last call and gtfu out a bunch. Black Flag baby. And yes, used to be a huge Rollins nut. Fun to watch live that is for sure. lol I would probably leave too. Decent band. Not a big punk fan either. Pixies onwards for me Funny, I ripped Doolittle onto a memory stick for the boat the first day I went out.

I LOVE to fish

Ah, makes sense now. What kind of boat? Danzi or Foutain or something similar? Ranger, lol.

boatbsTOP

Its the not getting up and putting on bindings that are too small that wears me out the most.

Sweet. Actually the first time I had ever skied in a dual boot. Took me three tries to get up, but again considering its been 3 years and only 3 times in 15 that isn't too bad. After that first try every time

hell yes. Now you'll really be able to enjoy that boat for what it was made for. Good wake makes all the difference It was already enough for wakeboarding, just not surfing. Now it should do that too. If not another 400lb in the left locker will solve that, but I thought I'd add that in stages as I don't really want to add another pump and switch and wire and that bs.

Black Flag? You? Not to listen to, to piss people off with. And of course only to teach them a lesson and in retaliation. I used to be a Sound Engineer, but also the manager of the bar I worked at. When we closed I had to stay until people left. I found the easiest way to get people to leave was to play Black Flag so loud that they couldn't talk. Usually took less than 5 minutes to empty the bar. Fuck yelling last call and gtfu out a bunch. Black Flag baby. And yes, used to be a huge Rollins nut. Fun to watch live that is for sure.

Fucking planes NOW though

It'll do around 38mph....but I am coming off a near 80mph boat. It feels like its CRAWLING.

ALMOST went barefooting this weekend. Have only skied 3x in the past 15 years and tore it up major on Saturday. Sunday morning it was gorgeous and I was about to go kill myself (ie fall at 40mph) and then had the revelation that after abusing my body on the sky all day Saturday I really didn't have the strength to use my flippy floppies as skies.

It now has MN registration as well. Fucking impossible to get that shit straight in the water, lol. either way I'll pull it off this fall and re-do it as there was some residue from the previous adhesive that was a bitch to get off in the lake. Neighbors laughed at me as I was using a heatgun standing in the water. Guess it should have an anti-bathtub sticker on it too

Pulled the stock rear ballast out of the boat today. 150lb hard tank out, 1100lb fat sac in

Hoping Jacob's Neo's end up being the ticket. Going to build some different tower speakers over the winter and will mate with some compression drivers. Sick of some dumbass playing shitty music tied up and having his tower speakers on so everyone else has to listen to it. Of course I will carry a few Black Flag albums and plenty of Opera. If they want to play, I'll play.

No because I know how hungry boosted vehicles are. Granted it may be different on water. That's a whole different animal, tune, and drag, so I may be wrong, but with a vehicle, if you are into the boost, you are using up a lot of fuel. Keep in mind you are forcing air in and compressing it where as the NA can only suck air in. The more air you have, the more fuel you need, so the blower is always going to need more fuel and a lot more. I was summoned to bed about the time I read this, so you know what I thought about all night (well not the first 15 minutes). Went through a huge calculation to "verify" things this morning, but am missing some information to really prove anything out. I have some conclusions however. Currently my boat pulls: 5200rpm at 38mph using 32 gallons/hr 3420rpm at 25mph using 4 gallons/hr Conveniently it is easy to calculate the different fuel used as the ideal gas law is linear. PV=nRT so if we increase the pressure x% we increase our oxygen intake the same and therefore assuming we keep the same fuel to 02 ratio we are golden. That being said going all the way up to 10psi of boost yields 1.68x the gas at the same RPM. (24.696/14.696). Then the question becomes propulsion and can you pick a prop with the right pitch & diameter such that the rpm of the motor will change, but keep the boat speed the same. I am not a prop guy so I'll make the assumption that this is possible. I do know there are a crap ton of props and that mine has an extremely aggressive prop (14.25 pitch which means one revolution with no slip moves the boat forward 14.25inches - as a reference my bass boat has a 27p prop and tops out near 80 at nearly the same RPM's as the Malibu doing just under 40mph and has nearly double the pitch). The only other question is do you have the power to turn it? In order to get there, the boost comes into play. Here I eyeballed: http://www.powerblocktv.com/sites/bang4buck/0703/ and came up with a power table. From my table you can see that in current stock form my boat makes around 220hp at 3450rpm where I cruise at 25mph. Even if I only gain 30% from 10psi I would only need to be spinning 2950rpm with the right prop to maintain that speed. 25mph is where my hull is the most efficient. The spot that makes this near impossible to determine is knowing my current fuel consumption curve. I only have two points. 25mph at 4.5gal/hr and 38mph at 32gal/hr. Since that curve looks far from linear it is hard to tell what drives it. One thing is for sure though, with a 40% gain in power I should be making around 340hp at 3700rpm instead of 5200rpm. This should mean that I'd be an awful lot closer to the 4gph than the 32gph (and then of course we adjust by 1.68x) which seems to me that it'd be more efficient where I am using it. So that being said I do think I will see both a top end improvement and efficiency improvement through lowering the rpms while running at a real cruising speed. If I had more points on the actual consumption of my boat so I could determine a curve I could really dial this in including exactly how much boost to use for what prop and such...or so I think anyways. Holy Shit Sean! Your statement had me dream all night. Almost to the point where I was going to look to see where I could get a flowmeter for "demo" purposes to run on my gas line to really map out my usage. Obviously not worth that effort. Should just baseline and go from there. That would be really thorough, lol. Exactly my problem. I have a hard time not being. Of course part of this stems from the fact that this is the slowest boat I have ever owned.

BUT it will fit